Recipes



Cinnamon Pinwheel scones


Ingredients    

2 cups flour  
    
1 tsp butter, melted

4 tsp baking powder 

1/4 cup brown sugar

25g butter      
                        
1 tsp cinnamon

3/4 cup milk

Pre heat the oven 130C



Measure flour and baking powder.           
then sift the dry ingridents .

Rub the butter into the flour and baking powder

Add milk and cutt in with a knife.

Use your hands to form soft dough and knead lightly on a floured surface.

 Roll out the dough into a 1/2cm thick rectangle

Brush the melted butter

Sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon over the dough and roll over the dough with a rolling pin.

Roll up the dough like a sushi roll.

Cut the roll into slices

Them individually place them side-by-side with a little space between them, on a baking tray which is has been sprayed  with cooling spray.

Bake for about 8 minutes they should look golden and yellow

Cool them for about 20 seconds or until they are warm.





Choux Pastry

   For chocolate éclairs, cream and savory puffs


1/2 cup flour

Pinch of salt or sugar , (add more salt or sugar if you are making a savory or sweet puff)

50g butter

1/2 cup hot water    1 tsp vanilla essence or extract

2 eggs                                      

Pre-heat oven to 220C



Heat the butter and water slowly in a pot, until all the butter has melted. Stir with a spoon

Increase the heat until the water boils rapidly.

Remove from the stove. Add in the flour and beat very fast with a wooden spoon. It should be like a smooth yellow ball of mixture.



Again put the mixture in the pot on the stove and stir for about a minute. Don’t let it dry up or burn.


Turn off the stove and beat each egg one by one. The pastry should look like a smooth yellow ball of mixture in step 4. If the mixture is slimy, and glossy it needs more stirring with a wooden spoon.



Spoon the pastry on the greased baking tray or baking paper. Using 2 spoons like spooning the muffin batter into the tins. Make sure they are small and rounded so they cook evenly and fast. (Cream or Savory puffs) For chocolate éclairs (Small short sausage shape)


Bake pastry in oven until they are crispy, risen and light golden brown.

Also reduce of the heat to dry out the paste inside of the pastry.

-       220C for 15-20 mins

-       -180C for 1-5 mins


Chocolate Éclairs

-      Melt a bit of chocolate and spread it over the pastry when it is cool . Ready to eat.



Chocolate icing


-       1 cup icing sugar

-      2tsp coca

-      3 Tbsp hot water



-        After the pastry has finished baking, cut open it and let it dry then add vanilla pastry cream or whipped cream and a bit of icing sugar in the opening.


Cream or Savory puffs


-       After the pastry has finished baking, cut open it and let it dry then add vanilla pastry cream, whipped cream and a bit of icing sugar, custard, mousse, jam, salmon seasoned with pepper and chopped up olives, crab meat with mayo and pepper. The list goes on.

-        BE CREATIVE & (have FUN)





Apple Sponge                

46g butter

1 egg

2 tsp

1 cup flour (plain)                                           

4 Tblsp water

4 Tblsp Sugar (add more if you want) J

Dash of cinnamon or nutmeg



Pre-heat the oven to 180C


Grease 6 small ramekins or 2 large ramekins or 1 litre pie dish with cooking spray or baking paper


Sift in the flour and baking powder in a large bowl.


Cream the butter and sugar. Then beat in the egg with an electric hand mixer.


Fold in half of the flour and baking powder. After that drop in the other half on the flour and baking powder and fold. It should be like a soft dropping mixture. If you hold the spoon the mixture will drop slowly.



Put about 2-3 Tblsp of the canned apple filling at the bottom of each greased ramekins and add a dash of sugar, nutmeg or cinnamon to sweeten it up.



 Then pour the mixture on top of apples. When pouring leave about 1cm of space at the ramekin so the sponge can rise.



Bake for about 20- 25 mins or until its light golden brown.


Too see if they are done do the knife test. Is where you open the oven and get a knife, poke the knife all the way to the bottom from the middle. If the knife comes out clean then it is done, if its got gooey mixture on it then it is not done.


Other options


Instead of putting in canned apple pie filling add in canned berries, pear, or peaches. Or maybe rhubarb.

If you are making it with a 1 litre pie dish add 2 cups of canned apple filling.


If you are making it with a 1 litre pie dish add 2 cups of canned apple filling.


Instead of putting in canned apple pie filling add in canned berries, pear, or peaches. Or maybe rhubarb.

If you are making it with 2 large ramekins add approx. 1/2 cup of the canned apple filling into each ramekin.

If you are making it with a 1 litre pie dish add 2 cups of canned apple filling.


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